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mine would have to be Mezzo DSA, just kidding although i don't mind it. No really Cowboy Bebop, well that's pretty obvious i'm always raving about it. but i think it is just really original and it has a dog. how could it get any better. it has the action, substance, humour, and fan service in a nice balance which i still believe dosn't happen very often.

i've never really thought about it and i tend not to look to deep into my own life because it will only mess up my already tidy sub-concious but off the top of my head most of them would be food cashews macadamian nuts blueberry muffins ginger cookies oh and the obvious family pets anime/ manga. basically the really obvious stuff i guess [COLOR=Red]Edit: Please remember to use proper punctuation and capitalization in your responses. Thanks. -Panda[/COLOR]

you totally have to check out Cowboy Bebop, i've seen a lot of the series you mentioned and it was because of bebop, but also if you like the GITS movies the SAC series are worth checking out. but for real action mezzo dsa is pretty cool too.

it really depends on which series, i find but the Cowboy Bebop manda sux compared the series, except for Shooting Star of course i love that. but it is totally different. in the oroginal manga the art is no where near as good and the strories aren't as interesting. but that again i think the opposite of other series, the Wolf's rain mange rivals the anime, but when i first picked it up i was disapointed. but now i love it the drawing is so detailed in the manga and although the stories are different i love them both. and its different again for fruits basket, i love the anime but perfer the manga heaps more, not only does it go heaps longer but the stroies are much more indepth and entertaining. but despite the anime production teams utter hatred i wish that episode six was also in the manga, that was so funny.

We are always questioning our existence, but the most important question that really haunts our minds should be are those Welcome mats that sit out the front of our doors really a warm greeting to those entering or a subconscious salute to our impending doom that will release us from this chaos that we call reality?

I seen V for Vendetta the other day and loved it but heard a review from a critic who hated it which provoked me to ask Do you think that mass audiences will grasp the deep political themes within V for Vendetta? The extended version of my provocation is posted on My Otaku blog.

i love Miyazaki, i don't really have one favourite film but i's have to say that The Castle of Cagliostro, My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and Howls Moving castle are all my favourite. But i love the way that unlike most these days he hasn't given up on traditional animation. also most of his stories seem to have some underlining point against society, whether it be war, pollution or other.

[quote name='Samurai Mix']^^^That was a great post . I like how you anazlyzed each episode very well. But I thoguht we were on the topic of impact not substance.[/quote] well i kinda went back to my first post on substance, sorry.

I couldn?t find the book, so I borrowed some of my sister?s notes and got some info off some sites, anyway I got half way through it and gave up, it just bugged the damn hell out of me. Ok so I might sound immature but there is no damn way that I can believe that in order to develop into a functioning member of this civilisation that I was once attracted to my parent. The whole thought just freaks me out. And than I got really angry about the fact there are only two choices Eros or death, I?ve spent years trying to disprove my friend, and to only have it confirmed by a great mind is totally deflating. Why can?t we override both instinct?s. Another thing I didn?t agree with, although I may have just misinterpreted it. But how can love and Eros be the same from what I read Eros is all about sex and self-gratification, were as we are constantly told that love is pure and selfless. So I guess it got me thinking is love just another concept being taught to us to make us believe that even if everything is this world has a selfish motive there is something pure to believe. But at the same time I guess it helped me to figure what I meant by I don?t believe in love. The love that I don?t believe in is not the love for a family member, pet or anything like that but the fact that we are told from birth that we need to have someone by our side in order to be a complete member of this civilisation. We are told bedtime stories about the damsel always finding her knight in shining armour and living happily ever after. Than as we get older and enter puberty we are bombarded with teen dramas obsessed with the confusion of being attracted to your childhood friend, and it only gets worse with age as romantic comedies plague the cinema. I can?t stand the fact that that we are constantly being brainwashed to believe that there are only two options in life either Eros or death and either way we can?t break free. Why can?t there be more?

i changed schools three times in my last 18 months of school, and i wasn't really sad to leave any of them. i missed some of my friends from my first school, but we didn't have many classes together so it didn't make much difference to me because we still talked all the time. everyone kept saying once you leave you want to go back, but they'll have to tie me down with chains to get me back, its just all to annoying for my liking. and the teachers want you to be intelligent but if you challenge them on anything especially in a catholic school than God help you. what every happen to the freedom to question, that they are always talking about.

[quote name='r2vq']To be fair, everything you watch out there is commercial. There isn't an Anime out there that doesn't hope to make some sort of profit. [/quote] Ok I known that every anime is commercial in the way that they seek profits for their work, but where I live there are really two types of anime the ?commercial? which has no age restrictions that is shown on TV all the time and you can buy the DVD?s, Manga?s, toys, cards, games, and books just about anywhere you go, and the movies will be shown in any cinema. And the second being ?Cult?, which is just basically anime for audience over 15, which is only aired on cult night specials on SBS unless you have pay TV and you have to go to speciality stores to find the DVD?s and Manga?s, and you can only find the merchandise in selected stores in major cities if you lucky. Trying to get to a cinema to see one of these movies is even harder. But of course I?m sure it?s always easier to find these in major cities. The other thing is that in the smaller towns and cities anime is nearly always seen as kids cartoons or porn, so where I live pretty much sucks especially when your one of only three otaku?s in the entire town.

[QUOTE=Samurai Mix]Id have to disagree. IMO I find that hard to belive that Bebop had an instant impact due to the fact the first 4 episodes of Bebop were nothing special. When I first saw the first 4 episodes I thoguht wow this anime is pretty cool with the good dialogue,action...[/QUOTE] How can you say that? Every episode of Cowboy Bebop is totally great. Ok I admit that the episodes that have Vicious in them probably have the most impact, but every other episode is just as good, some oozing with substance more than others. As for the first 4 not being much, Asteroid Blues is what really builds up for the rest of the series Old Man Bull makes his first appearance giving hints as to the ending of the series (I?m a fan that believes Spike [spoiler]really did die[/spoiler]). Ok so back to my initial argument of episodes containing substance Gateway Shuffle is one of the best of the series. It combines the modern science with age old evolution, environmentalist that shoot up people who go against their cause that?s an extreme way of fighting for nature and a total contrast to the tree hugging character that environmentalist are described with these days, but that Monkey Business Virus is the best, as some one who wants to study biology and is a huge fan of Darwin that virus is so cool. But the real point here being that the evolutionary and environmentalists arguments are these days major issues within society and the way in which they are portrayed in this episode is making a statement that as a society where violence is becoming an increasingly popular method of getting ones point across, peaceful actions will not always be as effective. It?s obvious that you seem to only look for an impact, and not actually substance within the episodes as every nearly episode has a statement about society, wether it straight out there or being an underlining theme. As well as the fact that Ballad Of Fallen Angles does not actually make that great a statement as it is really only looking at the internal politics that control Spikes life. Another episode that also portrays substance is Sympathy For The Devil, which questions immortality because while we may fear death, we actually wish to experience it to feel complete. An episode that really stuck with me was Pierrot Le Fou, I think this had the greatest statement of society with the fact that science sees it necessary to create, whether it is needed or not. They create the perfect killing machine, their own Frankenstein?s monster for no apparent reason. Although deem him useless when he reverts to a childlike phycology, which realistically is an advantage because in today?s court system, people who commit crimes but don?t understand the consequences of their actions are given linen see. Cowboy Funk, was a statement against commercialism, by using explosive teddy bears, stating that all of our problems stem from the social upbringing of children. As we seem to think that everything needs to be improved and made more efficient through technology. While Brain Scratch, expressed how we may think we live our lives according to religion because we need something to believe in, but realistically were controlled by television, so much so that we can?t really distinguish reality from illusion. Toys In The Attic may not seem that important or substance filled, but of the entire series that has got to be the most important episode. I speak from experience when I say that Spikes line at the end is one lesson that you should never forget.

my user name is a tribute to an old friend, i named him ceth, but he ozzed character unlike anything i've ever met. and it was his imperfections, and down right evilness that i loved the most, we really connected. so i changed the spelling of his name to suit him, and i still miss him heaps, so i decided to use that name as a tribute to him and his wickedness, that we both share.

i hate most commercial anime like pokemon, that craze went through my school and nearly drove me insane, but i guess that seems it be a pretty generally one. but i must say i really wish that i never seen angel sanctuary, was that a movie a series or what there were only three parts but it had to be continued. it disturbed the hell out of me.

i got my signature from Cowboy Bebop, in my last year of school everyone kept asking me what i was going to do with my life, and i had to tell the same people up to 4 times, so one day i turned around and said the first thing to pop into my head, and came out with "i'm going to waste my life away drinking whiskey and playing chess, care to join me?' it shock the hell out of everyone because i don't drink. and they never asked me again. I was lucky that i'd been watching bohemian rhasody the night before other wise alot worse could have come out of my mouth. gradually i changed it with some of my own and a little more tribute to Bebop. all of it is just apart of my weird personality.